And it was quite warm. Just a few things to mention. I havent been following closely but I didnt see any new food places and had a bash at the old and it aint so great hey.

I saw protection services guys trapping people on their way back to camp a lot but during the day the road between Skukuza and Lower Sabie is a free-for-all. The speed limit sign she is just opinion. And that seems to be OK for staff, tour operator and visitor vehicles. And lots of the cars and those hi-rise multi-seater vehicles race back and forth like they know there's something on the go somewhere. But it was hectic so I just got off it.

I'm not so hot at game spotting. I look at the map with sightings and seems like people are seeing things like crazy. But I saw enough I reckon. Dogs, a leopard, elephants and so forth. And then when I went on my 4.30 drive this morning (because the others dont get up that early, I go alone), I came across this lion lying flat on his side next to the road. There was another car there and we watched for a while but I thought there's something wrong here. And the guy just sort of looked up after a while and put his head down again. Then after another while he got up and walked slowly into the bush. I dont know if he was sick or old but he didnt look in any great shape.

Now here is a question if anyone can give me a pointer please. There is something that screams in the camp. To me it sounds pretty eerie but it is a loud scream or call or whatever you want to call it. I thought it's a bird but I dont think so anymore. Because last night when everyone was sleeping, I thought I'd step outside and record some of the night sounds (including whatever makes this loud shout or scream which was happening pretty much above my head I thought. Seems I thought right because as I opened the outside gauze door thing, something is sort of cack-cack cackling and jumps off the roof and into the tree and goes jumping through the tree branches onto the next rondawel roof and gone. I jumped just as quickly back into the rondawel and locked up and went to bed. Can anyone give me an idea what this creature could have been please?

So, did I mention that I saw a sick lion. Either that or he is old. I didnt get a good pic before he just got up and walked away into the bush. It was still quite dark.And seems the buffalo also seen better days hey.I dont know what they are but they are digging around in the mud for foodstuff.A big duck and a small duck who dont mind being together.Mike and the MechanicsIs this a Steenbok? I honestly dont know. He was standing next to the road for a long time and noone was interested in him but I think he is too grand.And this also quite wonderfrul to sit and watch but some big car nearly whacked them.Sorry, I dont know the names of all these animals. I'll find out sometime.

Thanks BB. Always such a sweat to go and try and find out what I see. MM, I dont know. My pics arent so good and anyway, I dont take pics of everything - I forget to. And anyway, the stuff that I stop and look at seem to make people quite agitated so I've got a bit of a complex about it hey.

By the way, is it normal to see so many tortoises dead on the road. I mean, I know that they are smallish but on 15 and 16 December I saw so many of them flattened and bleeding on the roads around Skukuza it's quite unbelievable. And they arent invisible!! I was wondering if you get people that do this deliberately.

I couldnt figure if there was something wrong with this little elephant or if it was just resting. A bigger elephant came over and stood over it and sort of nudged it around a bit. But it doesnt look like it is unwell or anything hey?

Well, thanks Barryels. But I'm pretty devious hey. Getting forum members to feed me the info that I want.

Just something that happened on the Sunday and I wasnt sure what to do or how to handle it. I was back from a morning drive and it was about 7.30 or so. And a real skadonk of a car drives up and stops at the rondavel next to ours. And out gets a guy and his wife and they go over to the fire that was still smouldering. And they blow it up and feed it and setup a bit of a picnic and braai and so forth and a few hours later they're gone again. When I asked the guy what this was all about he said that they were in Pretoriouskop and had no place there for making a fire. So I reckon he was a day visitor not to keen on the day visitor facilities at Skukuza. What would you do? I thought about reporting it but then again they werent making a noise or anything. But it does raise a concern though doesnt it?